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Author Stone, Geoffrey R., author.

Title Sex and the constitution : sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century / Geoffrey R. Stone.

Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  345.73 STONE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  345.7302 STONE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  345.7302 STONE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  345.7302 STONE, GEOFFREY R.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  345.7302 STO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  345.7302 STONE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.7302 STONE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  345.73 STO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.7302 STO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  345.7302 STONE    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxxii, 668 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The ancient world : the triumph of Augustine -- The power of revealed truth -- England, the enlightenment, and "the age of eros" -- From puritanism to the pursuit of happiness -- The world of the framers : a Christian nation? -- "The fundamental maxims of free government" -- The second great awakening -- "Tending to corrupt the public morals": the meaning of obscenity -- Contraception and abortion : from the founding to the 1950s -- Strange freaks of nature -- Coming out -- Obscenity and the First Amendment : a corrupting and debasing influence -- The end of obscenity? -- Sex and speech in the twenty-first century -- The constitution and the contraception -- The road to Roe -- Roe and beyond -- "The gay moment" -- A right to "retain their dignity" -- Same-sex marriage and the constitution.
Summary A constitutional scholar traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to today, citing the agitators, moralists, lawmakers, and Supreme Court justices who have shaped some of the most divisive sexual debates.
Subject Sex and law -- United States -- History.
Sexual rights -- United States -- History.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
LAW -- Constitutional.
Sex and law. (OCoLC)fst01114252
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst01114193
Sexual rights. (OCoLC)fst01748883
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780871404695 (hardcover)
0871404699 (hardcover)
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